New Customer Information Screens mean thousands of rail passengers across the region will be better informed at stations, thanks to a partnership between Metro, the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive and Northern Rail.
Eighteen stations across West Yorkshire will benefit from the £600,000 investment in the new screens and new integrated systems that will give passengers up-to-the-minute train running information. Stations with older systems will have them replaced.
Richard Allan, Assistant Area Director for Northern Rail, comments:
“We know our passengers want and need more information at smaller stations and we can now provide them with that thanks to this project.
“We are currently in the application stages to achieve funding for another 22 stations across the region so we can bring these advantages to even more of our customers.”
Metro Chairman Cllr James Lewis said: “Once they are installed, the new screens combined with digital links between audible and visual system, together with new amplifiers to improve the quality of audible information will provide passengers with the comprehensive up-to-the-minute train information they tell us they want.”
“We know from the work done in 2009 on the initial 43 stations in West Yorkshire, and from users of Metro’s ‘yournextbus’ service, that passengers value the convenience of accurate, timely information, and this project brings the same benefits to rail users.”
Stations that will benefit are:
- Bramley
- Cross Gates
- Castleford
- East Garforth
- Fitzwilliam
- Horsforth
- Hebden Bridge
- Knottingley
- Micklefield
- Moorthorpe
- Mytholmroyd
- Normanton
- Outwood
- Pontefract Monkhill
- Sandal & Agbrigg
- Sowerby Bridge
- Todmorden and
- Woodlesford
